US Open | 10/08 18:15 | 8 | Ali Farag v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-1 | |
Qatar Classic | 09/14 15:15 | 3 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Diego Elias | 1-3 | |
Qatar Classic | 09/13 15:15 | 9 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Nicolas Mueller | 3-1 | |
Qatar Classic | 09/11 15:15 | 8 | Marwan ElShorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 | |
Paris Squash | 08/28 16:15 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Paul Coll | 1-3 | |
El Gouna International | 05/27 11:15 | 8 | Diego Elias v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-1 | |
Manchester Open | 05/21 14:00 | 1 | Ali Farag v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-1 | |
Manchester Open | 05/20 15:45 | 2 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Tarek Momen | 3-1 | |
Manchester Open | 05/19 13:30 | 3 | Victor Crouin v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 | |
Manchester Open | 05/18 13:30 | 8 | Todd Harrity v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/12 00:00 | 1 | Ali Farag v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-0 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/11 01:00 | 2 | Mohamed ElShorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad | 2-3 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/09 23:30 | 3 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Diego Elias | 3-0 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/08 01:00 | 9 | Marwan ElShorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/05 18:30 | 8 | Dimitri Steinmann v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/04 23:00 | 7 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Youssef Soliman | 3-0 | |
British Open | 04/13 19:15 | 3 | Mazen Hesham v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-1 | |
British Open | 04/11 13:30 | 9 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Mohamed ElShorbagy | 3-2 | |
British Open | 04/10 16:15 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Miguel Rodriguez | 3-2 | |
Optasia Championships | 03/26 15:30 | 1 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Youssef Soliman | 3-0 | |
Optasia Championships | 03/25 17:30 | 2 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Baptiste Masotti | 3-0 | |
Optasia Championships | 03/24 20:30 | 3 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Eain Yow Ng | 3-1 | |
Optasia Championships | 03/22 19:30 | 8 | Diego Elias v Karim Abdel Gawad | Retired | |
Optasia Championships | 03/21 18:30 | 7 | Omar Mosaad v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 | |
Canary Wharf Classic | 03/14 18:45 | 8 | Paul Coll v Karim Abdel Gawad | 2-0 | |
Canary Wharf Classic | 03/12 17:30 | 7 | Dimitri Steinmann v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-2 | |
Black Ball Open | 03/04 12:30 | 8 | Mohamed ElShorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-2 | |
Black Ball Open | 03/02 12:30 | 7 | Auguste Dussourd v Karim Abdel Gawad | 1-3 | |
PSA World Championships | 05/17 19:00 | 9 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Mohamed ElShorbagy | Retired | |
PSA World Championships | 05/15 12:45 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Victor Crouin | 3-0 |
Karim Gawad (born 30 July 1991) is an Egyptian professional squash player. He is a former world individual champion and world number 1 and a three-times world team champion.
In November 2016, he won the 2016 World Open Squash Championship in Cairo in Egypt against Ramy Ashour. He became the third Egyptian to win the World Championship after Amr Shabana and Ashour. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 1 in May 2017. Later in 2017, he was part of the Egyptian team that won the 2017 Men's World Team Squash Championships in France and repeated the success with Egypt at the 2019 Men's World Team Squash Championships in the United States.
In 2020, he suffered a major injury during the final of the 2020 Manchester Open. He damaged his heel, which eventually led to ten months out of squash and his world ranking plummeted as a result.
In May 2023, he reached the final of the 2023 PSA Men's World Squash Championship, after defeating second seed Diego Elías in the quarter final and third seed Mohamed El Shorbagy in the semi final. In the final he lost to compatriot Ali Farag but Gawad became the first unseeded player since Rodney Martin in 1991 to reach the world championship final. It completed a remarkable comeback from the injury he suffered the previous year.
Gawad was recalled to the Egyptian team for the 2024 Men's World Team Squash Championships in Hong Kong and secured a third career gold medal in the Championships.